The Spill the Beans Resource Team completes its alternative journey for 2022/23 using a lectionary prepared by Ashley M Wilcox titled "The Women's Lectionary" . This new lectionary seeks to provide something of a rebalance to the usually androcentric approach we have to the Bible by deliberately focusing on bible passages about women and female imagery of God.
The team is also deliberately trying to focus more on how we worship intergenerationally within our church contexts. That has shifted our thinking somewhat so that instead of defining materials by age groups rather we are organising by how we might use different resources to "tell the story", "explore the story", and "live the story". Youi will still find a range of materials and ideas, but we challenge you to think creatively about how you use it and to think more intergenerationally.
You will find more about this approach in the Introduction section of the issue. Any feedback you want to offer will be most welcome. This is easily done on the Facebook page/group.
Sampler
Created by folks here in Scotland, this issue has lots of ideas and resources for you to inspire, adapt, use in your setting. If you have not used Spill the Beans before then please have a look at this sample.
In this copy we also have details of a new two year lectionary that the Spill the Beans Resource Team have devised for 2023-2025 that we are calling "Word and World" as we try proactively to engage with events taking place in our own nation and worldwide during the course of those two years. A full draft table of readings is within the issue and will shortly be made available on the website.
We have also included some resources to facilitate churches going through transition whether that is closure of buildings, unions, linkages, groupings and so on.
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You can also get involved in feedback and discussion on the Spill the Beans website, where we try to put up weekly PowerPoint backgrounds too. There is also a facebook page in which we share ideas and we have introduced a new Facebook group which you can link to from the facebook page and which we hope will provide a place of mutual support, ideas and encouragement as we trek together through this new adventure.
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